6) Provide extensible encryption capabilities for exporting profiles. Perhaps a new extension point to register an encryption method. Need to research different encryption methods. (LTH) (BZ entry: 202648 [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=202648])

6) Provide extensible encryption capabilities for exporting profiles. Perhaps a new extension point to register an encryption method. Need to research different encryption methods. (LTH) (BZ entry: 202648 [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=202648])

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Possibly add a new extension point that points to a class and provides a name and description for the encryption provider. The encryption provider (IProfileEncryptionProvider) would implement two methods (similar to BIRT's IEncryptionHelper) -

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The current encryption/decryption method will be moved to this extension point and used as the default method.

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When exporting via the Export dialog, the user can select via a drop-down list from the list of available encryption providers (or the drop-down will be disabled if only the default is available).

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When importing, the Import routine will look at the file and (somehow) determine which encryption provider was used and decrypt accordingly or pop up a message indicating that the encryption method is not available.

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We will need to change the internal ConnectionProfileMgmt class (that does the saves and loads of profiles) so it would take one of these encryption providers to handle encrypting and decrypting the streams.

DTP Connectivity Ganymede

For Ganymede, we will focus on Must Have (MH) items before Like to Have (LTH) items.

Connectivity

Things to Consider...

1) Ability to pre-populate a connection UI with driver definitions. (This already exists with the ability to auto-create a default instance of a particular driver template at startup.) (MH) (BZ entry: 202641[1])

2) Provide common user interface for selecting existing connection profiles. Features of this UI should include filtering of the existing connections based on an arbitrary set of attributes and it should display an extensible set of properties for the selected connection. (This already partly exists with the ability to host the DSE on a dialog page/composite/wizard/property/preference page where necessary.) (MH) (BZ entry: 202643[2])

4) Ability to inject from a runtime instance of a profile at startup to populate a profile in the DSE. This may be supported already with the repository code. (MH) (BZ entry: 202647[4])

5) Filtering needs to become much more extensible and flexible. Perhaps split out catalog-loader (SQL-level) filtering from client-level (viewer-level) filtering. Also provide the capability to use client-level filtering by default, if a db-specific extension did not implement catalog-loader filtering. (MH) (BZ entries: 200140[5], 177272[6], 199689[7])

6) Provide extensible encryption capabilities for exporting profiles. Perhaps a new extension point to register an encryption method. Need to research different encryption methods. (LTH) (BZ entry: 202648 [8])

Possibly add a new extension point that points to a class and provides a name and description for the encryption provider. The encryption provider (IProfileEncryptionProvider) would implement two methods (similar to BIRT's IEncryptionHelper) -

The current encryption/decryption method will be moved to this extension point and used as the default method.

When exporting via the Export dialog, the user can select via a drop-down list from the list of available encryption providers (or the drop-down will be disabled if only the default is available).

When importing, the Import routine will look at the file and (somehow) determine which encryption provider was used and decrypt accordingly or pop up a message indicating that the encryption method is not available.

We will need to change the internal ConnectionProfileMgmt class (that does the saves and loads of profiles) so it would take one of these encryption providers to handle encrypting and decrypting the streams.

8) Focus on sorting and see if we can come up with ways to make that work for various levels of the DSE within the Platform's Common Navigator Framework (see if any changes are upcoming for Ganymede) (LTH) (BZ entries: 150592[10])

9) Connection timeout such that connections in the DSE will be closed if unused for a certain amount of time specified in a preference page. This is a WTP feature that needs to be ported to DTP. It will probably need to be redesigned as the DSE in DTP is not exclusive to database connections and it may not make sense to timeout connections to other types of servers. (MH) (BZ entry: 202653[11])

Perhaps look at it so that each individual server type implements an extension point (perhaps an extension on the CP extension point), listens in a server-specific way for disconnects, and then triggers a reconnect. It will be difficult to handle in the generic case.

Here is the UI from WTP to use as a starting point:

10) Provide enablement support for JNDI connections for getting a pooled JDBC connection through a JNDI service. Check out Apache Tomcat 5.5.x and BEA WebLogic 8.1 as examples. Both are fairly simple to use and configure. However, Tomcat does not support client-side access, which we will need in the DSE. (LTH) (BZ entries: 202640[12])